[BIRD33]

well well well...

first of all I'm not obsessed with the US culture, I do think that sometimes my yogourth got more of that.

Second of all you may wonder but in fact he Euro zone got stronger and diversified economies than in the US who apart California and some Eastern states is a vast empty economical desert (Oklahoma ?)

Thirdly Europe is expanding on the eastern states (the old russian satellite states). this may goign to be problematic in a few years (see russia is going to be pushy because of that closeness)but right now EU laws and regulations are getting into those people's minds; and they just need everything there. Bet it it's a new fantastatic new market of people needing fridges, cars, computer services...

I saw the other week a footage on a group of investors who build a fish factory near the Oural Sea who was abinding to EU regulations on that matter "so they could have simpler access to EU market". That is pushing EU domination deeper in the spirit of people than any mass bombing or help that US could ever do (I mean that's what you were trying to do in Irak no? )

You hit the nail on the head with Russias relationship to the EU.It will be the riskier play to switch to the Euro over the dollar because something like Russia fucking with one of their satellites could destabilize a good portion of the region.That can't happen to the American dollar.We did our worse with Iraq and we still arent in a hole we can't climb out of.We had huge economic growth from 96 till about 3 years ago and you can not argue that Europe didnt ride our coattails.You can't sustain that type of growth forever but if you look at America's track record over the last 100 years only a fool would assume we won't have that type of growth again so switching from the dollar could potentially cost a country billions eventually.